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Top 10 Tools for a Tough Economy Editors, experts uncover today’s best values I t never fails. Put a few woodworkers in the same room for an hour and, almost certainly, the talk gravitates toward favorite tools. And at Fine Wood- working, there are always a few woodworkers in the same room, so the discussion happens daily. With that in mind, we thought readers might like to know which tools are our favorites. We asked staff editors, contributing editors, and regular contributors to tell us about the tool they’d hate to lose. We had only two rules: The tool had to be a rela- tively new one, so readers could find it easily in a store or online. And, because our current economy is less than robust, we asked them to make sure the tool was also a good value. 40 FINE WOODWORKING